20 August 2012

Startobaza and Softline Venture Partners Fund announced partnership

Business-angel Startobaza and Softline Venture Partners Fund expand their cooperation in the area of finding, analyzing, financing and promotion of IT-startups. Companies have already had shared experience with projects. So now they are going begin to work together in the field of startups promotion.

As said managing partner of Startobaza, Svetlana Nikiforova, «New partnership with Softline is a great opportunity for synergy of efforts in project development. I’m sure, we get doubly good results, if combine of competence».

Elena Alexeeva, Softline VP manager, added: «Our new partner Startobaza is located in IT-park, Kazan. There are perfect conditions for IT-entrepreneurship. That helps to find and create new international companies. So new partnership will favorably affects on SVP and Startobaza. I hope, soon we will announce about our first results».

The companies are planning new projects analyzing, including in the contest of young developers DevGeneration-2012.

Startobaza is a business-angel company that provides support in development and promotion of IT-projects. Among portfolio companies Startobaza has Avtodoria, Startpack, Digital Loyalty System and other projects.

Softline Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund of the Softline group, one of the leaders of the Russian software licensing market. Fund has Tekmi, Mirapolis, ActiveCloud, SmartStart and other startups as a portfolio companies.